She was "all right again," she said as she sat, but the abstraction of her eyes and the harkening droop of her head showed that inwardly she still saw and heard the death-struck boy.
At the mirror again she laid deft touches on brow and crown, harkeningbetween for any messenger's step, and presently, without reason, began to set the room more exquisitely to rights.
At fifteen his nature had begun to awaken, and the uncle, harkening to the boy's wish, apprenticed him for two years to a forester.
And harkening to the Inner Voice is simply doing what you want to do.
He continued to sit gazing at the frosted panes and harkening to the roaring blasts.
But he had anticipated finding the girls alone and having a pleasant chat with them, enjoying their companionship, relaxing from the strain of arduous work, harkening to their badinage.
For a minute or two he squatted in the narrow quarters, breathing regularly and deeply, and harkening to the innumerable creaking voices of the decks and bulkheads, and the muffled voices and laughter from forward.
Still I could not see a glint of light, nor did the most attentive harkening favor me with the slightest sound.
For ten minutes or so his attitude of concentrated harkening to the two voices, a girl's and a man's, remained unchanged.
Harkening to it instead of knocking the man down, that was the worst of it.
Sensing the danger that threatened Sorenson, both remained unmoving, trying to penetrate the darkness, harkening to the automobile's retreating murmur.
With half of his attention Weir was harkening for the sound of starting automobiles.
At Martinez' office he stepped inside, called the lawyer by name, called Janet Hosmer, stood for a little while in the black room harkening and thinking, then went forth into the street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harkening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
